When I graduated college I used Dvorak and Emacs on Linux. Six months of having to use shared Windows lab computers extensively beat me down to surrender all of those points - my brain just couldn't handle switching, so I conformed my desktop to match. Then later I switched jobs to a group that was all Unix, but of many varieties most of which only had vi, not Emacs. And so I learned vi. Sometimes minimizing friction means going with the flow.

this exactly. most people can’t set it up that well.

Edit: Or do you mean "declaratively" in the sense of using something like straight.el?

I use a doom emacs overlay that uses pgtk so it works flawlessly on wayland, since I only learned recently that it uses X by default. You can inspect my dotfiles here: [[https://github.com/ArikRahman/dotfiles][ArikRahman/dotfiles: Arik's Dotfiles]]

It's so comfortable that it acts as an impediment to change, since some types of change are uncomfortable.

This can feel like friction to me.

When I remove customisation, I am more "open to experience", and often find preferable tooling.